The alternative to capitalism - democratic protagonism in the 21st century
The paper explores the possibility of creating a positive vision of post-capitalist society and economy, a blue-print for future society with reminiscence to the existing valuable drafts such as Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto. Also, it focuses on shortcomings of that blue-print th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2023/0353-57382304637P.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper explores the possibility of creating a positive vision of
post-capitalist society and economy, a blue-print for future society with
reminiscence to the existing valuable drafts such as Marx and Engels’s
Communist Manifesto. Also, it focuses on shortcomings of that blue-print
that became evident through the experiences of 20th-century real socialisms.
Following Canadian Marxist Michael Lebowitz, the paper elaborates on how the
vision of socialism for the 21st century should place central emphasis on
the importance of changing the social relations of production. The central
problem is located in the “vanguard relations of production”, the central
power and hierarchical authority in the hand of the party vanguard. The
paper stresses the importance of the communist party as central to the
articulation of the interests of the proletarian class as a whole, a class
whose central interest is the overthrow of capitalism. However, the project
of overthrowing capitalism must include the recognition of the practical
comprehension of the importance of the democratic protagonism. Workers
cannot be subordinated as passive observers of the system change. A change
in social circumstances should simultaneously mean a change in the actors
themselves - the socialist protagonists. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |